Figures-In-LaTeX-Documents

Including Figures in Latex Documents

Here is and example which illustrates how to include an eps file emtex.eps in a latex2e document using the graphicx package.

\documentclass{article} \usepackage{graphicx} % This simple example shows how to include an Encapsulated % Postscript file (called emtex.eps) below in a LaTeX document. % If you use "xfig" to generate your eps file, remember that % 1) By default xfig saves figures in landscape mode - change to portrait mode % before saving your file as an encapsulated postscript file % 2) Choose eps rather than ps as the format to export your picture % 3) You should also save your file in native xfig format % as, say file.fig, so that you can edit it with xfig later on. % xfig will not edit ps or eps files. \begin{document} Diagram of Emtex's directories %% Example %% Use this with Latex: \includegraphics[height=4in]{emtex.eps} \end{document}

If you want to transform your latex document into a pdf file, you could use pdflatex. Pdflatex allows you to use other graphics formats (besides eps) as the example below shows

\documentclass{article} \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} % If you want to include non-eps graphics in latex document, % you should use the pdftex option for the graphicx package. % See the \usepackage line above and the \DeclareGraphicsExtentions % below. You can run only run pdflatex on this file (to generate % pdf output). Latex will not work on it. % This simple example shows how to include an Encapsulated % Postscript file (called emtex.eps) below in a LaTeX document. % If you use "xfig" to generate your eps file, remember that % 1) By default xfig saves figures in landscape mode - change to portrait mode % before saving your file as an encapsulated postscript file % 2) Choose eps rather than ps as the format to export your picture % 3) You should also save your file in native xfig format % as, say file.fig, so that you can edit it with xfig % later on. xfig will not edit ps or eps files. \begin{document} \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.pdf,.png,.gif,.jpg} Diagram of Emtex's directories %% Example %% Use this with pdfLatex: \includegraphics[height=4in]{emtex.pdf} \end{document}

Another way to create a pdf file, which produces sharper images, is to first use \includegraphics to include the .eps file as explained above, then do

dvips -Ppdf file.dvi ps2pdf file.ps

Using the -Ppdf option with dvips will produce a sharper image.